Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-18

remained to them in making war upon the
humsn race. They murdered policemen
because these policemen were the uphol-
ders and symbols OF public order. At
the last, by their speech or by their
silence, they all avowed themselves muir
derers, and owned the justice OF their
doom. None OF the misguided persons
who have signed petitions that their SEN
fences might be committed can hence
forth find any excuse for their own action
that will not dishOnor themselves. Who
ever maintains now that Judicial muir
der" was done in Chicago yesterday must
maintain, not that these men were not
guilty OF killing the police of Chicago,
nor that they have repented their crime,
but that the crime was g noble and merl-
torious act. An expression OF sympathy
for the fate Of such criminals is itself
crime.
The martyrs of the law are thus at last
avenged. For the first time immigrants
from countries in which vast armies and
crest bodies of policemen are employed
70 suppress opinion have been edmon-
ished that American wide tolerance CT
all opinions and of all modes of express
ing them ceases when mad opinions are
translated into lewless sct5. The lesson
mas not come before it was sorely
needed. Men who revolt against the
government of the land that gave them
birth can at least plead that they were
made members of its society without
their own consent. But no such
plen can be made by the man who has
Of lis own will taken up his abode in q
strange country. To organize a "s0cisl
In all no inafifntinnC ~
a society he has thus sought for himself
shows deliberate depraVity that units 6
man for membership of any community,
past, present, or future. The sbseEce
here Of the visible means Of enforcing or
der that ere to be seen on every hand
abroad has encouraged these monsters to
plot massacres and rapine in American
cities almost without concealment.
Now that one Of their c0nspirscies
has broken out in crime, other plot
tiers are notified that governments can
exist and be strong and sVenge them
selves upon their enemies without need
ing armies or arsenals 10 OVeraWe their
OWE citizens. It is because the people OF
the United States love the government
which they themselves constitute, and be-
lieVe in it, that they do not heed the ap-
plances which imported anarchists have
been used to look upon as the only de-
fences of order. The police of Chicago
were but q handful against the moo that
murdered them; but they stood for ell
the millions Of the American people, and
every American felt il to be
duty to do his part toward bring
ing their murde?ers to justice, as
every American would have felt il as &
personal disgrace if their muTderers had
escaped justice. The vengeance taken
upon them is not that Of single class or
OF a single community. 1t is that of the
whole nation. The odds of the mob
against the police seemed great, but how
puny would all the elements OF crime and
disorder and anarchy in Chicag0 or in the
country seem il they could BE- fairly set
in array against the millions Of honest
snd pesceable and law-ablding men snd
women who and whose like have made
this country Whist it is, and who
will keep it FOR order and for progress in
trust for mankind in spite OF all the hu-
man refuse that Europe has emptied or
may yet empty On cur shores? "Jusfice
travels with q leaden foot, but she strikes
with en- iron hand" II is to be hoped
that the distursers Of our peace may De
so warned by the events OF yesterday that
her hand need not fall upon them yet more
heavily, for if G still severer lesson is
needed assuredly it will be given.